The Honours List issued last Saturday, the King's birthday, was
again very long. Peerages were conferred on Sir J. B. Robinson, of the Rand; Sir Archibald Williamson, Sir .R. H. Borwick, Sir W. Vestey and Sir S. J. Waring. Mr. Amery and Colonel Leslie Wilson were appointed Privy Councillors. Among- the fifteen new Baronets were Sir Berkeley Moynihan, the well-known surgeon ; Sir John Norton-Griffiths, who destroyed many of the Rumanian oil-wells before the Germans -could seize them in .1916 ; Sir Edward Stern and Mr. Hilde- brand Ilarmsworth. Knighthoods were conferred on some -sixty persons, including Mr. H. A. Barker, the osteopath ; Mr. H. T. Dickens, K.C. ; Professor C. H. Firth, the historian of the Stuarts ; Professor Bayliss, the eminent physiologist ; Mr. William Mills, who invented the hand-grenade used by the British Army in the -War ; Dr. E. J. Russell, of Rothamsted ; and Mr. Maurice Low, the Washington correspondent of the Morning Post.
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